Yoko Shirasu
Research Fellow


Education and Experience

09.2004   Ph.D (Economics) Yokohama National University
04.1989-01.2006   The Government Housing Loan Corporation of Japan
04.2005-   Lecturer (part-time) of Hosei University (-03.2006)
01.2006-   Research Fellow of FRTC of JP-FSA

Research Theme
Risk Management of Insurance Companies and Regulation
-    The comprehensive studies of insurance markets in view of "efficiency" and "soundness (risk management)"
-   A method of the regulation that it is necessary as the supervision authorities
-   Basic studies of Finance

Publications
1) Book
   Market Competition and Market Price, Nihon Hyoron-sha, 06. 2005 (with Motonari Kurasawa, etc, in Japanese)
 
2) Article
   "The Empirical Analysis of Bond Spread in Japan — In View of Liquidity Premium," Working paper series No.123, Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, 2005 (with Yasuhiro Yonezawa, in Japanese)

 

Takao Iijima
Research Fellow

Education
  Ph.D. (Economics) at Keio University in 2006
M.A. (Economics) at Keio University in 2000
B.A. (Economics) at Keio University in 1994

Research Theme
  • Japan's Big Bang (Financial system reforms in Japan)
• Financial system reforms in Asian countries

Career
  Present position from April 2006
Associate Research Fellow, Financial Research and Training Center, Financial Services Agency from June 2005 to March 2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, the 21st COE Program, Keio University from April 2004 to March 2006

 

Koichi Yano
Research Fellow

Education
 
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D candidate), Apr. 2003 -
  Department of Statistical Science, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies.
Master of Engineering, Apr. 1994 - Mar. 1996.
  Materials Physics, Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
Bachelor of Engineering, Apr. 1990 - Mar. 1994.
Materials Physics, Department of Electronics and Materials Physics, School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Employments
  Researcher, Jul. 2001 - Mar. 2004. Financial Services Agency, Japanese Government.
Engineer, Jun. 1999 - Jun. 2001. NTT Communications. Engineer, Apr. 1996 - Jun. 1999. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
(NTT).

Research Theme
  Finance (Bank Lending, Stock Markets)
Time Series Analysis (Akaike Information Criterion, Statistical Optimal Control, Particle Filtering)
Macroeconomics (Dynamic General Equilibrium, Monetary Policy).

Publications (referred)
  Yano, K., 2004, "The Beta Estimation Based on the Kalman Filter," FSA Research Review 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 104-125, (in Japanese).

Publications (proceedings and working papers)
  Yano, K., and Seisho Sato, 2005, "Time Varying Vector Autoregressive Modeling and Statistical Optimal Control," Proceedings of International Symposium on The Art of Statistical Metaware.

Yano, K., and Seisho Sato, 2005, "Monetary Policy Based on Statistical Optimal Control," Proceedings of The 2005 Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting, pp. 155-156.

Yano, K., and Seisho Sato, 2005, "Estimating Time Varying Linear Systems and Control: Applications to Monetary Policy," Proceedings of The Meeting of The Society of Applied Economic Time Series Analysis, pp. 37-60.

Yano, K., and Seisho Sato, 2005, "Estimating Time Varying Linear Systems and Control: Applications to Monetary Policy," Proceedings of The 5th IASC Asian Conference on Statistical Computing, pp. 199-202.

Yano, K., 2006, "A Self Organizing State Space Model and Initial Distribution Search Based on Nelder-Mead Algorithm," Proceedings of The 73rd KBS workshop of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

Yano, K., and Seisho Sato, 2005, "Dynamic Instrument Rules and Forecast-Based Monetary Policy," SSRN Electronic Paper, No. 664902.

Books
  Yano, K., 2004, "An Easy Introduction to Time Series Analysis and R," The R Book: Data Analysis Environment R and The Case Studies pp.
90-110, Kyu-ten sha(in Japanese).

Honors
  The Award of The Wakimoto Memorial Fund for Japanese and Korean Studens, The 5th IASC Asian Conference on Statistical Computing

Memberships
  The Econometric Society

 

Mamiko Yokoi-Arai Research Fellow

Education
11/2001    Ph.D (Law), Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
4/1996-3/1998   MA(Business Law), University of Tsukuba
8/1990-7/1994   BA (International Relations), University of Tsukuba

Employments
8/2006- Research Fellow, Financial Services Agency, Japanese Government
7/2006-  Reader in International Finance Law and Regulation, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London (on leave till August 2008)
1/2002-7/ 2006 Lecturer in International Finance Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
12/2000- 4/2001 Consultant Expert (evaluated the Programme of the Legal Transition Team) in European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
6/2000- 9 /2000 Intern, Office of the General Counsel in European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
4/1/1994- 8/31/1998 Bank of Japan (Tokyo, Japan)

Research Theme
Comparative Study of Financial Law and Regulation

Publications
  • Financial Crises in the 1990s (Co-editor with Doug Arner and Zhongfei Zhou) London, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2001, ISBN: 0-903067-52-8.
  • Financial Stability Issues: The Case of East Asia, London: Kluwer Law International, 2002, ISBN: 90-411-9878-4.
  • The Evolving Concept of Operational Risk and its Regulatory Treatment [2003] 9(1) Law and Business Review of the Americas 105-138, ISSN 1571-9537.
  • The Balance of Market Discipline in Bank Regulation in Lars Gorton ed., Breakdown of Public & Private Dichotomy in Commercial and Financial Law, Lund, Stockholm: Studentlitteratur, 2003, 81-105, ISBN 91-970371-2-5.
  • A comparative analysis of the financial ombudsman systems in the UK and Japan [2004] 5(4) Journal of International Banking Regulation, 333-357, ISSN 1465-4830/
  • The Relationship Between A Single Financial Regulator and the Deposit Insurance System: Analysing Japan [2005] 39(1) International Lawyer, 63-86, ISSN 0020-7810.
  • The Basel II in the national sphere [2005] Law in Transition (EBRD)
  • Mamiko Yokoi-Arai, Nobuhiko Sugiura & Son, ''Comparative Analysis of Financial Ombudsman in the UK, US and Japan'' (Discussion Paper of the Financial Supervisory Agency in Japan, Spring 2005)(Japanese)
  • Legal and Political Effects of Financial and Monetary Regional Integration in Asia [2006] Law and Business Review of the Americas
  • Regulatory Efficiency of a Single Regulator in Financial Services: Analysis of the UK and Japan [forthcoming Fall 2006] 22(1) Banking and Finance Law Review ISSN 0832-8722, ISBN 0-459-23741-1.

 

Akihiko Takahashi Special Research Fellow

Office Address
  Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
113-0033, Japan

Research Themes
  Finance, Applied Probability

Current Positions
  Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo (Since April 2003)

Principal Past Positions
  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics, The University of Tokyo (April 1999 - September 2003)

Educations
  B.A. (Economics) Department of Economics, The University of Tokyo (March 1985)
Ph. D. (Business Administration (Finance)),
University of California at Berkeley (December 1995)

Ph. D. Thesis
  "Essays on the Valuation Problems of Contingent Claims" (1995)

Publications
  I) Recent Publications 2000.4 -
Book
Foundation of Mathematical Finance - Application of Malliavin Calculus and an Asymptotic Expansion Method -, Toyo Keizai Shimpo-sha, Jul. 2003 (with Naoto Kunitomo, in Japanese)

Articles
"An Asymptotic Expansion Scheme for Optimal Investment Problems," Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Vol.7, No.2, 153-188, 2004 (with Nakahiro Yoshida)

"Applications of the Asymptotic Expansion Approach based on Malliavin-Watanabe Calculus in Financial Problems," forthcoming in Stochastic Processes and Applications to Mathematical Finance, World Scientific, 195-232, 2004 (with Naoto Kunitomo)

"Dynamic Optimality of Yield Curve Strategies," Discussion Paper Series, CIRJE-F-299, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo, 2004 (with Takao Kobayashi and Norio Tokioka), forthcoming in International Review of Finance

"Monte Carlo Simulation with an Asymptotic Expansion in HJM Framework," Discussion Paper Series, CIRJE-CJ-112, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo, 2004 (with Shuichiro Matsushima, in Japanese), forthcoming Annals of Financial Services Agency, 2004

"An Asymptotic Expansion Approach to Pricing American Options," Monetary and Economic Studies, Vol.22, 35-87, Bank of Japan, Nov. 2003 (with Taiga Saito, in Japanese)

"On Validity of the Asymptotic Expansion Approach in Contingent Claim Analysis," Annals of Applied Probability, Vol.13, No.3, 914-952, 2003 (with Naoto Kunitomo)

"An Application of Monte Carlo Filter for Estimating the Term Structure of Interest Rates," Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol.50, No.2, 133-147, 2002 (with Seisho Sato, in Japanese)

"Pricing Convertible Bonds with Default Risk," The Journal of Fixed Income, Vol.11, No.3, 20-29, Dec. 2001 (with Takao Kobayashi and Naruhisa Nakagawa)

"An Asymptotic Expansion Scheme for the Optimal Portfolio for Investment," Mathematical Economics, Kokyuroku 1215, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, 2001 (with Nakahiro Yoshida)

"A Monte Carlo Filtering Approach for Estimating the Term Structure of Interest Rates," Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Vol.53, 50-62, 2001 (with Seisho Sato)

"The Asymptotic Expansion Approach to the Valuation of Interest Rate Contingent Claims," Mathematical Finance, Vol.11, 117-151, Jan. 2001 (with Naoto Kunitomo)

"A Variable Reduction Technique for Pricing Average-rate Options," International Review of Finance, Vol.1, 123-142, Jun. 2000 (with Hua He)

(Preprints)
"New Acceleration Schemes with the Asymptotic Expansion in Monte Carlo Simulation," Discussion Paper Series, CIRJE-F-298, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo, 2004 (with Yoshihiko Uchida)

"On the Computation of Greeks -An Application of Malliavin Calculus-,"
IMES Discussion Paper Series 2004-J-24, Bank of Japan (with Imamura and Yoshihiko Uchida)

"The Asymptotic Expansion Approach with Monte Carlo Simulation with Asymptotic Method," Discussion Paper Series, CIRJE-F-249, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo, 2003 (with Nakahiro Yoshida)

II) Publications 1995 - 2000.3
Articles
"An Asymptotic Expansion Approach to Pricing Financial Contingent Claims," Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Vol.6, 115-151, 1999

"Pricing of Securities with Default Risks," Technical Report, The Industrial Bank of Japan, 1997

"Practitioner's Recipe for Number-Theoretic Quasi Random Sequence Generator," Technical Report, The Industrial Bank of Japan, 1997 (with Keiichiro Ikeda and Masakazu Ando)

III) Selected Publications prior to 1995
Articles
"Valuation of Interest Rates Contingent Claims Based on HJM Model," Unpublished Master Paper, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

"Pricing Average Options," Japan Financial Review, Vol.14, 1-20, Jan. 1992 (with Naoto Kunitomo, in Japanese)

Honors
  Best Poster Session Presentation Awards, (with Seisho Sato),
The International Symposium on Frontiers of Time Series Modeling,
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, February, 2000. 

 

 

Yoshikazu Yamashita
Special Research Fellow
  Associate Professor of Law (Gakushuin University)
 

Hatsuru Morita
Special Research Fellow
  Associate Professor, Tohoku University School of Law
Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Chicago Law School

 

Tomoka Miyachi
Special Research Fellow

Education
 
[Graduate school]
2003/03   Withdrawal after completion of course requirements Doctor Course Graduate School, Division of Commerce, Keio University
1998/03   Completed Master Course Graduate School, Division of Commerce, Keio University
[University, College and other]
1996/03   Graduated Faculty of Commerce, Keio University

Research Theme
  Risk Management and Insurance

Career
 
2003/04-Present   Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2003/04-Present   Lecturer, Keio University Correspondence Courses
2003/04-Present   Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Kanto Gakuin University
2003/09-Present   Special Research Fellow, Financial Research and Training Center
2005/04-Present   Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University
2006/04-Present  

Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University

 

Matahiro Daisai
Special Research Fellow

Education
 
March 1974   Bachelors’ degree in law at Kyoto University
April 1974   Joined the Ministry of Finance, Japan
July 1994   Director of Local Treasury Division, the Ministry of Finance
July 1995   Director of Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division, the Ministry of Finance
July 1997   Director of Planning Division, the Economic Planning Agency
July 2001   Assistant Commissioner, the National Tax Agency
July 2004   Chief Professor at National Tax College
October 2004   Special Research Fellow of the Financial Research and Training Center

Research Theme
 

Future Developments of Japanese Corporate Accounting Standards and Disclosure Requirements

 

Nobuo Yamamura
Special Research Fellow

Education
 
04.1989-03.1996   Study at Kyushu University (Fukuoka): MA(econ.)
07.1996-03.1998   Research Stay in Germany (Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin) under Prof.Dr.Hein (Banking and Financial Market) at the Free University Berlin Qualified for ZOP (High-level German Language Examination) of the Goethe Institute
(11.1996-02.1997 Scholarship of DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service))
03.1999   Graduate from Doctor Course of Kyushu Univ. without Dissertation
04.1999-03.2000   Assistant of Kyushu University
04.2000-09.2001   Post Doctoral Scholar of Kyushu University
04.2001-09.2001   Lecturer (part-time) of Shimonoseki City University
09.2001-   Research Fellow of FRTC of JP-FSA
(04.2003-03.2004 Part-time Lecturer of Kanagawa University (Yokohama))

Research Theme
  Regional or Retail Financial Services;
Alternative or/and Complementary Financial Institutes;
Institutional Changes in the Financial (Services) Systems;
Contributions to Discussion Papers of FRTC (written in Japanese):
05.2003 vol. 4: "Institutions for Financial Crisis Management and Deposit Protection in Germany –Role of Initiatives of the Market Economy in Stabilizing German Financial System -"

12.2003 vol. 12: "Regional Financial Systems in France and the Netherlands - Relationship Lending and Banking in Europe and Hint to Japanese Economy-"

 

Takuya Shima
Special Research Fellow

Research Theme
  Studies on Legal Framework for electronic payment and securities settlement systems

Current Position
  Associate Professor, Shinshu University School of Law

Office
  Shinshu University School of Law
3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano
390-8621, JAPAN

Education
  Bachelor of Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo (March 1991)
Master of Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo (March 1994)
Master of Law (LLM), University of Virginia School of Law (May 1997)

Research Career
 
1991/04-2004/07   Bank of Japan
2002/07-2004/07   Financial Services Agency
2004/08-2005/03   Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Shinshu University
2005/04-Present   Associate Professor, Shinshu University School of Law

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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